Sir Clive Woodward believes England CAN win Le Crunch against France… but they need to stop kicking to a middle ground.
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#1. Kick it less
Woodward wrote: “To have any chance of winning, the first thing England must work on is their kicking game. In the defeat by Scotland, they neither kicked to compete or kicked to turn the opposition defence.
“They paid the price for kicking to a middle ground, as we saw through Duhan van der Merwe’s try. Against Wales, England kicked better, but it still was not good enough.
Wales had Leigh Halfpenny at full back and he is not the player he once was, lacking the pace required to play the modern game. I
“f Wales had Jason Robinson at full back — a player who could run the ball back at speed — England would have been murdered.”
